Originally Posted by
John E
I can shift across any desired number of cogs with either friction or old-fashioned linear-action indexed shift (downtube levers or barcons on the road bikes, thumbies on the mountain bike). I am glad the brifter crowd is gradually catching up.

Yeah, and that's a thing I missed after finally moving to brifters early last year. I've gratefully found the function quite useful. Guess mebbe I can still scrap the notion of "needing" Di2 fer a couple/few years yet.